Word: tarring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George E. Moore's research team at Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute tested six brands of cigarettes, four plain and two filtered, by "smoking" them in a machine and collecting the tar...
...project of Mrs. Norman Chandler, wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times. She has already raised $9,400,000. Also under way in Los Angeles: a $10 million County Museum of Art, designed by William Pereira Associates, which will rise near the La Brea tar pits this summer. It will be financed totally by private gifts...
...sixth of Hong Kong's 3,250,000 people occupy squatter towns like Diamond Hill, made up of cardboard-walled cubicles and straw-mat lean-tos. More than 80,000 others find homes in tar-paper shacks on tenement rooftops. Some 362,000 refugees have already been housed in the colony's impressive resettlement projects, and construction over the next five years will care for 100,000 more annually. Even the unemployed Chinese refugees in Hong Kong need not starve: there are 86 private and public social service agencies...
...North Carolina, Harris suffered one jolting defeat: he ran for the editorship of the Daily Tar Heel and lost by three votes out of 3,000. He still talks about that defeat with a trace of anguish: "It was a heartbreaking election. It was the first and last time I ever ran for office." Harris learned his trade during nine years in the Elmo Roper polling organi zation. When he departed in 1956 to found Louis Harris & Associates, he took four Roper clients along with him - an unkindness that Elmo Roper has never forgiven. Today the Harris organization grosses roughly...
Free or Freeze? Some school boards are so confused about the reforms that they simply ignore them. Many are too broke to try them. Others fiercely resent outside "dictation." A prime tar get is the national testing programs (more than 20 so far), for everything from college admissions to science scholarships. Protesting that schools are being forced to teach just for the tests, a committee of top school administrators last month called for a nationwide revolt: "Local school systems should refuse to participate in nationally sponsored tests unless those tests can be demon strated to have value commensurate with...